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vaci speech.

vaci-duccarita virati abstinence from wrong speech.

vaci-vinnatti the rupa which is speech intimation.

vanna appearance or quality.

vasana disagreeable habits accumulated in the past that can only be eradicated by a Buddha. Even arahats who have eradicated all defilements may still have a way of speech or action that is not agreeable to others. This is not motivated by akusala, but it is due to their habits in the past which have been accumulated.

vatthu base, physical base of citta.

vayo-dhatu element of wind or motion.

vedana feeling.

vedana-khandha group of all feelings.

vedananupassana satipathana mindfulness of feeling

Vibhanga “Book of Analysis”, one of the seven books of the Abhidhamma.

vibhava-tanha craving for non-existence.

vicara sustained thought or discursive thinking.

vicikiccha doubt.

vigata-paccaya disappearance-condition.

vihimsa-vitakka thought of harming.

Vikkhambhana suppression

Vinaya Book of Discipline for the monks

vinnana consciousness citta.

vinnana-dhatu element of consciousness, comprising all cittas.

vinnanakkhandha aggregate of consciousness, comprising all cittas.

vinnanancayatana sphere of boundless consciousness, meditation s ubject for the second stage of immaterial jhana.

vipaka-paccaya vipaka-condition.

vipakacitta citta which is the result of a wholesome deed (kusala kamma) or an unwholesome deed (akusala kamma) . It can arise as rebirth- consciousness, or during life as the experience of pleasant or unpleasant objects through the senses, such as seeing, hearing, etc.

vipallasas perversions. Three kinds: sanna perversion of perception, citta of thought, dittìhi of views.

vipassana insight, wisdom which sees realities as they are.

vipassana nana moment of insight knowledge.

vippayutta unaccompanied by.

vippayutta-paccaya dissociation-condition.

viriya energy.

visankharadhamma unconditioned dhamma, nibbana.

Visuddhimagga an Encyclopedia of the Buddha's teaching, written by Buddhaghosa in the fifth century A.D.

vitakka applied thinking, a cetasika which directs the citta to the object.

vithicittas cittas arising in processes.

vithi-vimutti-cittas process freed cittas, cittas which do not arise within a process.

Vítikkama transgression

votthapana-citta determining consciousness.

vyapada ill-will.

vyapada-vitakka thought of malevolence.